When I tell people I like tea, this is usually how the conversation goes.
Me: I love tea!
Them: Oh me too!
Me: Really? What kinds of tea do you like?
Them: Oh, all kinds!
Me: …Like?
Them: Um………..I like Celestial Seasonings I guess.

…Or they just say, looking at your fervor as if you are odd, “ahh…mint.” And you get that deflated feeling. No offense to mint lovers, I happen to absolutely adore mint: tisanes, in blends, whatever…it’s just when the conversation ends limply like that…

yup, I have one friend who has lipton brisk as his go-to tea (also loves the better stuff though) another who drinks bigalow green tea almost exclusively, though she cycles though stash fruity greens too.

What about having a husband who just the other day brought home a jug each of sweet and unsweetened black tea along with raspberry lemonade, orange juice and a snapple mango drink. I glared at him and he responded “What? I was thirsty!” I told him he could text me anytime from work and I will make him a pitcher of iced tea, he has his own tins! “Well”, he said, “I never think of it”.

And the next morning, the toddler opens the fridge, sees the jugs and says “I want ice tea”. “How about I brew you some tea?”. “No I want iced tea”, “I can make you iced tea”, “No I want this”, “Not even raspberry?”, “No”. So I cut it with water. Sigh.

Let’s not get into how ancient the bags of tea are in my mom’s cupboard, most were herbal but that Darjeeling in the back was probably picked up by my dad, in the Navy, 40 years ago. And she tried to tell me about the benefits of green tea when I was brewing for her. That’s okay, she got Verdant greens and a Zojirushi for Christmas and her birthday yesterday!

When the tea ladies at your local tea house tell other customers to ask you which tea to recommend, because you’ve tried nearly all of them.

When you are offended that with the 100 or so varieties of tea you have in your home, your sitter refuses to drink it & has the never to ask you if you have some simple Red Rose, Twinnings etc. Or as he put it “normal tea”. I even offered to buy him some loose leaf brekfast tea or earl grey (they aren’t kinds I drink), he still refuses & wants bagged tea :( I give up

Inexplicable! Or…when you painstakingly brew the perfect cup of loose leaf tea, secretly, for a relative… that is in the same family of the bagged tea that your relative drinks…and he just drinks it, completely not appreciating that there is even a difference…He doesn’t smack his lips and say, “now hey there, THIS is what real tea should taste like!” Lol to each his own, more for me!

Finding this site after Googling storing tea in mason jars. If I can save money on tea storage then I can spend more money on tea and other needed teaware.

Realizing that most of my compost pile is tea leaves. Way more that a 2:1 ratio I believe, but most of the veggie scraps go to the chickens.

Telling your husband that “We have to talk…” and the conversation is about him interfering with your tea consumption habit by being so demanding of your time that you can’t properly brew enough pots of tea every day. (Just 3-4 pots of tea caused me to have withdrawals) To which he responds with, “Well isn’t there something that you can put your tea and water in and push a button and it does all the work for you like my coffee pot?” Yes, yes there is.

Calculating how much you spent on tea that you actually drank during the time he was underfoot and telling him how much it cost you per day to drink tea, knowing that it was much less than he spends on his daily 3-7 pot per day coffee habit. To which his response was “I will never say another word about your tea habit again, I didn’t realize you spent so little”

Feeling giddy and excited when he said those words to me. Spending New Years Eve at home with him while looking at Japanese tea websites. Realizing that I was ordering tea at midnight, thinking that is a lucky omen that it will be a good year.

Reading this thread, while drinking 4 pots of tea, coming across things that were new to me, researching them, and not feeling so alone in my obsession.

Since I am still somewhat new to my tea addiction and have caught myself trying to figure out how to take real tea out to eat with me, calling FedEx when it looked like my package was going to be delayed and I was afraid of running out of jasmine green, (won’t let that happen again) wondering how to assemble a travel tea set and matching food to my tea menu.

What really has me concerned about my new addiction to tea is when the thought crossed my mind about possibly downsizing my wine collection to make room for more tea stuff. See I can drink tons of tea and drive down the road, can’t legally do that with wine.

You plan a girls’ day at the mall with the intention of tricking your friends into going to the tea shop and becoming as hooked as you so you can all go buy tea at the same time to get a larger bulk discount so you can afford your 5-pots-a-day chai habit. True story. Didn’t work. Anyone wanna go tea shopping with me?